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Hmmmmm,
Bfair again, as I read your posts I wonder if you really understand what issues we deal with.
I support, with no question, your right to critical judgment. I would just like to know that you UNDERSTAND issues before your fingers hit the keys.
No one has ever mistaken me for a Carl Childress fan (Alexander Pope) however, I do UNDERSTAND what he is trying to accomplish with his writings.
B, umpiring aint that tough. It is the combination of using a set of rules, a good dose of experience, and a heap of common sense to get through each game with your skin on.
Often I disagree with Carls positions (i.e. see F1 stepping off) but I take the time to review WHY they are written. Ya see B, Carl understands a side of umpiring that I find a mystery . . . the politics of rules making. Hell B, I thought it would be as simple as writing a letter to those Wacky FEDS (Carl hates that term) asking them to change something and it would happen. Nope, I got a letter explaining just how unimportant my single thought was.
B, rules CHANGE long before the get written into books. Hell I am old enough to tell you that when I worked basketball it was before there was a signal for over-and-back but officials made a signal anyway. It took YEARS before books actually showed the signal but it was the approved method.
You attempt to make your post a personal attack on Carl and because of that is loses its power.
Like all things in life B there are two camps:
1) The call the game-by-the-rules-by-god type,
2) And those that understand that there is gray in all types of calls.
Carls word, although not gospel, is a lot more important to me than the naysayers.
Just My Opinion
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